Italian and Pizza (FOOD)

The State College area is experiencing a lot of growth with the development of the downtown Fraser Centre and other multi-use buildings. Here’s a rundown of the most recent restaurant openings and what we can expect in coming months.

I grew up in the heart of Amish country. It's a place where eating well is hard work. You pick the corn you eat (and shuck it, and steam it, and cut it off the cob for that matter, but I digress). We picked raspberries in the dead of summer in someone's back pasture. It was a time when words like pesticide-free, heirloom, organic, whole wheat and local were not cool, and I wanted so badly to be cool. All I really wanted was to be like the kids I saw on TV that ate red licorice and Coke and frozen vegetables.